Monday, October 20, 2008

Sampling Political Cartoons

Here in Abu Dhabi, we're having a guest speaker from the U.S. embassy in class tomorrow. This being a presidential election year, we're going to hear about how the electoral system works (or doesn't) and what role political cartoons play. I just ran across a great source for browsing how political cartoonists see our world. Go here and scroll down to see what they make of Colin Powell's Obama endorsement.

4 comments:

Fatema Al Mulla said...

Interesting website, i liked Palin's cartoon, the one about her dress and looks! haha
okay, we know that she had a background that had nothing to do with what she is TODAY, why does the media keep talking about other things rather than focusing on her thoughts?
Does this happen when any 'woman' stands up for such an important position?
Who knows :S

Amna Al Jaber said...

This is one problem that people keep on focusing on Palin's appearance rather than her thoughts, As Fatima said maybe people do all the fuss just when a woman with a high position stands up in public.

Athra said...

I like this way of communication .. it just bring me joy when each time I realized I new way of communicating with people in all over the world .. I remember Mr. Phillip when he says communication is not about word but it can be any thing that can give a message .. it doesn’t look at languages but it is about our communication ideas .. the problem that people some time forgot that our feature may be a language and sampling political cartoons can be also a language .. I love this inventions in communicating with each other ^_^

Sara K said...

I did a research about Palin's history and it appears to not be a bright one. She made many wrong turns during the time she served as governor. Its not because she is a women its because. she is not in the right place.

at least, thats what i think.